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Teresa Heinz
Politician
Female
Born
Oct 5, 1938
Age
74
Hometown
Maputo
Political Party
Republican Party ...
Nationality
American
Other Names
Maria Teresa Thie...
Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira Heinz, known as Teresa Heinz, is an American businesswoman and philanthropist, the widow of former U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III, and the wife of U.S. Senator John Kerry.
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Teresa Heinz
Age 74
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H. John Heinz IVSon, Age 46
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Who Is The Richest Member Of Congress? (Hint: It's Not Him)Huffington Post - Aug 21, 2012
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Will Durst: The Bain Of His Electoral ExistenceHuffington Post - Jul 20, 2012
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David Wade: Facts Are Stubborn ThingsHuffington Post - Jul 16, 2012
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Ann Romney, Michelle Obama Face Off In Cookie ContestBites on Today - Jun 26, 2012
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CHILDHOOD
1938
Birth
Born on October 5, 1938.
TWENTIES
1960
21 Years Old
In 1960, Heinz earned a Bachelor of Arts in Romance Languages and Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
1963
24 Years Old
In 1963, she graduated from the School of Translation and Interpretation at the University of Geneva and moved to the United States to be an interpreter at the United Nations.
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1966
27 Years Old
On February 5, 1966, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's gothic Heinz Chapel on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh, Simões-Ferreira married Henry John Heinz III, an heir to the H. J. Heinz Company.
THIRTIES
FIFTIES
In 1990, she met Senator Kerry at an Earth Day rally.
1991
52 Years Old
This was the only reported time they met before Senator Heinz died in an airplane crash on April 4, 1991. In 1992, they met again, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was a member of a State Department delegation appointed by then-President George H. W. Bush. Their courtship began in 1993, and they were married May 26, 1995, on Nantucket, Massachusetts.
1992
53 Years Old
In 1992, she was a Delegate to the Earth Summit, representing Non-Governmental Organizations.
In 1993, with Kerry and environmentalist academic Dr. Anthony Cortese, she co-founded Second Nature, which brings "Education for Sustainability" to college campuses.
In 1995, with a $20 million grant, the Heinz Endowments provided initial funding for The Heinz Center, "a nonprofit institution dedicated to improving the scientific and economic foundation for environmental policy through multisectoral collaboration among industry, government, academia, and environmental organizations."
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1996
57 Years Old
In 1996, the Heinz Foundations created WISER, the Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
According to her most recently released income tax of 2003, the Kerry and Heinz paid an effective federal income tax rate of 12%.
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Choosing to remain registered as a Republican until John Kerry's presidential bid in 2004, she kept her name Teresa Heinz.
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2005
66 Years Old
After her husband's defeat, and shortly before she gave a speech to the National Council for Research on Women in January 2005, she changed back to Teresa Heinz.
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